Q: "Where do you gentlemen stand as far as the draft is concerned in England?"
JOHN: "About five eleven."
(laughter)
RINGO: "It comes from that door over there."
JOHN: "Oh, you mean the Army. We all miss it. And if we didn't, we'd all hide in the south of Ireland."
Q: "How closely was your script of the movie, 'A Hard Day's Night' scripted? How much of it did you fellas ad-lib or wing?"
PAUL: (long pause) "Uhhhhhhhh..."
(laughter)
JOHN: "Most of it was script. You can tell the script bits. They're all sort of semi-Irish/Welsh things. Most of it was script. Alot was ad-libbed."
Q: "I'd like to direct this question to John and Paul. Out of all the compositions that you've written, which do you..."
JOHN: (anticipating the question) "We don't know."
PAUL: "Which is what?"
JOHN: "Which is your favorite."
Q: "Which is the best?"
JOHN: "'Land Of Hope And Glory' was one of my favorites."
(laughter)
Q: "Who decides who's going to sing the lead of a particular song you may do?"
JOHN: "It depends on alot of things. If I write.... If we write 'em together, he sings higher than me so basically I normally sing lead and he sings harmony. If I can't make it he sings on-tone."
(laughter)
Q: "Do you write alot of the songs in the hotel room?"
JOHN: "Well, yeah."
Q: "Ringo?"
RINGO: "Yes?"
Q: "It's rumored that you have written some things for symphony orchestras."
BEATLES: (laugh)
RINGO: "I don't even write letters."
(laughter)
Q: "As you're confined to your room all day, what do you do?"
GEORGE: "Oh! Tennis and waterpolo."
(laughter)
PAUL: "Football. Cricket."
RINGO: "We just sit 'round."
PAUL: "Sit 'round, read, tell jokes, play Monopoly."
RINGO: "Watch television."
PAUL: "Smoke."
JOHN: "Hide from the security. Things like that."
Q: "Does it get boring?"
RINGO: "No."
JOHN: "No, it's great."
Q: "If you could just walk down the street without anyone recognizing you, what would you like to do?"
JOHN: "Well, we used to do that with no money in our pockets, so there's no point in it. It's a dead loss."
(laughter)
Q: "Fellas, what's your opinion of the Animals, the group with the big song?"
BEATLES: "Great!"
PAUL: "Very good group. They're nice fellas, too."
Q: "Have you seen them before? Have you seen them perform?"
BEATLES: "Yeah."
GEORGE: "In England."
PAUL: "And they're nice fellas from Newcastle, you know."
RINGO: "Good lads."
Q: "Political question!"
PAUL: "Alright."
JOHN: "Great."
RINGO: "Get out!"
Q: "What's your favorite... Goldwater or Dowdy?"
JOHN: "MacMillan."
(laughter)
JOHN: "God save the queens."
Q: "John? Have you written a book?"
JOHN: "Yeah?"
BEATLES: (laugh)
RINGO: (chuckling about the reporter asking the question) "Who IS she?"
GEORGE: "Oh god."
JOHN: "Yes, I have!"
Q: "What is it called?"
JOHN: (pauses) "...Uhh, 'In His Own Write,' you see."
PAUL: "So he's gotta be deep. Something deep coming up any minute."
Q: "What's it about?"
JOHN: "Rubbish!"
(laughter)
JOHN: (half-jokingly) "You should buy it. That's the least you can do after saying that."
Q: (snide tone) "Why don't you send me an autographed copy?"
JOHN: "I can't be bothered."
Q: "Do you fellas have a favorite American singing group?"
PAUL: "...favoriteSSS."
JOHN: "We've got so many."
PAUL: "American colored groups."
GEORGE: "The Detroit sound. All of the people from Detroit we like."
JOHN: "Nearly all of them."
Q: "What do you think of our American group called the Beach Boys?"
GEORGE: "Great."
PAUL: "I like them very much, yeah. Very good harmonies."
JOHN: "We've never seen any of them Live, but they all make good records."
Q: "Ringo, what's your favorite color?"
RINGO: "Umm..."
Q: "They say all sorts of stuff. What is it really?"
JOHN: (to Ringo) "What do they say about you?"
RINGO: "I don't know what do they say about me?"
GEORGE: "What is it, Ringo??"
RINGO: "Black, I'll say! What's yours?"
(laughter)
Q: "What do you do with all the presents you get?"
JOHN: "What presents?"
(laughter)
RINGO: "We ship most off them back to England."
PAUL: "Well, any of the ones that we can't keep, or the ones that are impractical, like a fifty-foot cake that we could never eat."
JOHN: "We've never had a fifty-foot cake!!"
PAUL: "No, I'm exaggerating!!"
(laughter)
PAUL: "...a three-foot cake, you know. We give it to a charity or hospital or something."
Q: "Paul, what was your reaction to the movie (A Hard Day's Night) after you had seen it yourself?"
PAUL: "Umm, I don't know, you know. With us being in it, I just watched us all the time. So the first time I just didn't think anything. But after a bit I just thought we weren't very good, but that the director was very good. I think he's a very good director, but we weren't much good."
Q: "Do you think you will ever be invited behind the Iron Curtain?"
JOHN: "If they've got enough Rubles, or whatever they've got."
(laughter)
Q: "I understand they do not have an income tax."
JOHN: "Well, they've got no money, either."
(laughter)
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